Posted by: Kyle

Last weekend we headed down to the southwest corner of the state to Ouray and Telluride for the Imogene Pass Trail Race. It's a running race from Ouray to Telluride along a jeep road that crosses Imogene Pass. Here's the elevation profile.

The weather was perfect, and the race was a lot of fun. Ouray and Telluride may be the two most beautiful towns in the country. We stayed in Telluride, took a shuttle over to Ouray early Saturday morning, and ran back to the finish in Telluride. Here are a couple of pictures of Main Street in Telluride.

Telluride has a downtown and a mountain village up on the mountain at the base of the ski area. The two are connected by a free public gondola that runs from 6 am to 12 am daily. We took a ride up the gondola to explore the mountain village.

In this picture from the gondola you can faintly see the Imogene Pass Road that we ran on as it comes down from the pass.